What will bring Italy back to the World Cup will be a long journey and the institutions, ready to criticize when things go wrong, must provide concrete help
Gabriele Gravina resigned as president of the Football Federation: he couldn’t have done otherwise, but he must be recognized for the timeliness and correctness with which he left. The burden of failure is too great for a president who has seen Italy fail to qualify for the World Cup twice. And if there is a need to start again from yet another year zero, it is necessary for those who set out on this long journey to be light-hearted and bring with them the possibility of making mistakes (hopefully little). Because it’s better to say it right away that it’s a long journey. Any serious system reform, in this case necessarily in the name of discontinuity, requires time to see results. However, two things are admitted: that we share the sense of the gravity of the situation and that we share the objective, namely that a strong national team is a value for the entire movement, as tennis demonstrates.
